Precious metals news

Dave Kranzler says the long period of consolidation in gold, going back several years, is finally ending. Here's what it means for gold & silver investors...

We learnt this month that the US Federal Reserve had decided not to raise the countercyclical capital buffer required of banks above its current level of zero, even though the US economy is at a cyclical peak.

Gold prices rose, supported by a weaker dollar as analysts looked ahead to Wednesday’s statement from the Federal Reserve.

As the yellow metal hits peak production, experts feel we may have discovered all of the world's major gold deposits. So what does it mean for the precious metal aficionados and investors?

Europe’s financial overseers need to be ready for the consequences...

Reform lies dormant as Tokyo proves ‘Modern Monetary Theory’ – badly – but bond markets are unperturbed...

The change in total global exports has now gone negative. Barron's has an interesting article How Investors Should Navigate Globalization’s Decline.

The dollar remains subdued as the Federal Reserve meeting approaches. Given the recent run of disappointing US data, the market is taking a view that the Fed is set t

The Federal Reserve is likely to pause rate hikes through 2019, write Ed Yardeni and Melissa Tagg.

Not too long ago, Peter Schiff said, "The rate hikes of the past have already guaranteed that the economy is headed for recession. It doesn’t matter whether they continue to raise rates in the future. The recession is a done deal."
In a recent interview, economist and editor of the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report,  Dr. Marc Faber, expressed a similar sentiment, saying, "Forget about the coming slowdown because the economy has already been backing up for months and we're likely already in a recession."

The average forecast for GDP growth this year is just 2.3 percent because of the trade battle and slowing global growth, the March survey found.

Federal Reserve officials say they’re willing to tolerate an overshoot of their inflation goal. If the opposite happens, the plan is less clear.

The upcoming Federal Reserve Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting on 20 March is expected to confirm market expectations that the Federal Reserve (Fed) will remain on hold for the rest of the year. This, in turn, will likely influence gold’s performance

An economic advisor to the German government, Isabel Schnabel, said on Tuesday she strongly advised against a possible merger of Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank.

As we reported last week, consumer debt continues to break records month after month. Americans owe over $4.3 trillion dollars in revolving debt (primarily credit cards), student loans and auto loans. When you factor in mortgages, the number climbs to $13.54 trillion. That figure was $869 billion higher than the previous peak of $12.68 trillion in the third quarter of 2008 (right before the crash) and 21.4% above the post-financial-crisis trough reached in the second quarter of 2013.
But many mainstream analysts downplay this surge in debt. And on the surface, the numbers do seem to indicate the risk isn't as big as it was prior to the 2008 financial crisis. But as Wolf Richter explains, the averages conceal a different reality.

First, the central bank has been signaling lately it’s not entirely happy with the rupee’s strength. Second, oil is headed back up toward $70 a barrel. Third, it’s unlikely the recent surge of flows into Indian bonds

Very simply, this means that the housing market is once again completely out of sync with the rest of the economy. A decade on from the subprime bubble, housing, which is not only shelter

What's the best precious metal trade for the rest of the 2019, and what about the long-term? Here are the four precious metals, explained and ranked...

Gold traded either side of unchanged last night in a range of $1298.25 - $1306.25. It was pressured to its low during early Asian hours as the DX remained firm around 96.60 and Asian equities and S&P futures....

With growing interest in the sector, it is important to look into the fundamentals, and the fundamentals are superior for the junior miners. Here's why...